Zenity Named the “Company to Beat” in AI Agent Governance in New Gartner® Report

NEW YORK, April 23, 2026 — Zenity, the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents, today announced it has been recognized in the Gartner® report, AI Vendor Race: Zenity Is the Company to Beat in AI Agent Governance. According to the research, “Zenity’s purpose-built agentic-centric architecture, intent-aware detection and continued end-user interest put it at the forefront of the AI agent governance race.”

As enterprise adoption of autonomous AI accelerates, organizations face mounting challenges in securing agents that operate across heterogeneous environments, interact with sensitive data and act with increasing autonomy. Static, policy-based controls have proven insufficient. Security teams need continuous visibility, runtime enforcement and the ability to distinguish between legitimate and malicious agent behavior at scale.

The Gartner report notes that “enterprise adoption of autonomous AI systems is rapidly amplifying risks and invigorating activity in the AI agent governance market. The adoption of AI agents has led to the advancement of AI agent governance, leading them to evolve beyond providing static policies-based controls to allowing them to anticipate and respond to agentic risks at scale. This is delivered through continuous monitoring and (context-aware, intent-focused) runtime enforcement.”

According to the report, "Zenity's intent-aware runtime defense, comprehensive full-life-cycle observability across SaaS and cloud and endpoint environments, shadow AI discovery and posture management make it the front-runner in this race."

In Zenity’s view, Gartner's assessment highlights several areas where Zenity's platform stands apart from the market:

• Purpose-built agentic architecture: Zenity delivers comprehensive AI agent security and governance across SaaS-managed agents, custom-built agents, and device-based deployments — covering the full agent lifecycle from build time to runtime in a single platform.
• Intent-aware detection and runtime enforcement: Zenity's Clarity Agent and stateful threat engine monitor agent execution in real time, analyzing tool calls, memory access and data usage patterns to distinguish between legitimate operation and malicious manipulation attempts — enabling proactive, context-aware security rather than reactive, rule-based response.
• Citizen developer and shadow AI governance: Zenity proactively enforces security policies across citizen developer platforms including Microsoft Copilot Studio, Salesforce Agentforce, AWS Bedrock and Azure AI Foundry, while actively discovering and mitigating unauthorized shadow AI across the enterprise.
• Identity security across the full agent surface: Zenity secures all identity layers that AI agents operate across — static, dynamic, tool-based and implicit identities through agent-to-agent interactions — addressing a critical blind spot that most security platforms were not designed to handle.
• Interoperability and ecosystem coverage: Zenity secures agent interactions across emerging interoperability frameworks, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent Skills and operates within a broad partner ecosystem that includes Microsoft, OpenAI, AWS and ServiceNow.

“AI agents are already making decisions and taking actions inside enterprise environments,” said Ben Kliger, co-founder and CEO of Zenity. “The challenge isn’t visibility alone, it’s understanding intent and enforcing it at runtime. This is the market shift we are seeing right now and it’s exactly what we’ve built Zenity’s platform to address. We believe this recognition in the Gartner report reflects the growing importance of that approach.”

Zenity CEO Ben Kliger expands on these themes and the broader market shift in today’s blog post.

The Gartner report also recognizes that: “Zenity uniquely contributes to the security community with well-informed security research and also contributed to OWASP Top 10 frameworks with risk lists and open-source frameworks like MITRE ATLAS.” The report notes, “these contributions add to its market position, as they become the de facto standards and research body, creating the market demand which they can address with their offering, making it difficult for competition to displace them.”

Zenity believes this recognition reflects its continued focus on helping enterprises secure and govern AI agents at runtime, with the visibility and controls needed to manage risk and operate at scale.

Gartner, AI Vendor Race: Zenity Is the Company to Beat in AI Agent Governance, Tarun Rohilla, Mark Wah, Lauren Kornutick, 17 April 2026.

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About Zenity

Zenity is the first security and governance platform purpose-built for AI agents — spanning SaaS, homegrown platforms (Cloud), and end-user devices (Endpoint). Trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises, Zenity helps security teams confidently adopt AI by delivering defense in depth with full-lifecycle coverage: from agent discovery and posture management to real-time detection, inline prevention, and response. With an agent-centric approach that prioritizes how agents behave, what they access, and which tools they invoke, Zenity eliminates blind spots and enforces consistent policy and controls across environments so organizations can innovate with AI, without compromising security. Learn more at www.zenity.io.